Jan 17 2011Too Far, You Went There: The TRON Audi R8
West Coast Customs teamed up with Monster Cables (WTF?!) to produce a TRON-themed Audi R8 because -- well -- I don't know why. Something about poor decision making and overpriced wires.
The car itself is an Audi R8, a car whose electric version has graced the digital pages of CNET UK once before, thanks to its clever wireless-charging capabilities. Very sneaky stuff.
This version of the R8, however, isn't quite so subtle -- with glowing rims, glowing vents, a glowing back seat and a chrome finish so perfectly reflective that you can check your hair and makeup in the car's bonnet. All the glowing bits gradually fade through a series of colours too, for added Tron-style excellence.Those clever West Coast Customs lads have certainly done a good job adhering to the source material, even if this car is so shiny it's not likely to be road legal -- imagine catching an eyeful of your own headlights reflected in this beast...
Too shiny to be street legal? Well there goes my mirror-car! Seriously, it just drove by. Should probably stop leaving my keys in the ignition. But you know what they say, "hindsight's 20/20". Unless your looking in your rearview and my mirror-car's behind you, IN WHICH CASE THAT SHIT IS BLINDING.
Hit the jump for a bunch more shots of a wasted Audi.
WCC x Monster Cable's Tron Audi R8 Night Pics and Monster's Tron-themed Audi R8, tricked out by West Coast Customs [westcoastcustoms]
Thanks to Gargamel, who agrees it needs more neon underneath and enough subwoofers to rattle the wheels off BECAUSE THE MAN KNOWS CAR MODS.
Reader Comments
1. Ben - January 17, 2011 1:03 PM
Cool
and
1st
2. Jorge - January 17, 2011 1:06 PM
I think all that chrome shininess is more ridiculous than all the EL wire
3. Bleh but Tron car is cool. - January 17, 2011 1:07 PM
It's shiny... like this pair of fangs I bought one time, except they sent me the wrong ones.
DON'T ORDER FROM VAMPFANGS!
4. Brandy - January 17, 2011 1:12 PM
oooohhhhh shiney!
5. Jiacong - January 17, 2011 1:12 PM
should have more blue lines over the body like those lightcycles and lightrunners
6. -Lmega5- - January 17, 2011 1:15 PM
zomg i want one. O_O
7. Chip Chipperson - January 17, 2011 1:20 PM
tss tss...yeah what if you drove it to the grocery store and someone banged it you would be pretty angry or sumpthin...tss tss...
8. Android Boy - January 17, 2011 1:20 PM
Do waaaaaaaaaant!
9. Brett - January 17, 2011 1:24 PM
I'd rather see it in black instead of chrome. Other than that, I like it.
10. cyberslackz - January 17, 2011 1:27 PM
Looks like one of my old hotwheels..coolness
11. customerservice - January 17, 2011 2:13 PM
way to waste 150k and ruin a beautiful car... so sad
12. Louis - January 17, 2011 2:31 PM
If you add lights to anything, does it make it tron. I got a tron tree at this moment.
Louis of http://aprettyage.blogspot.com/
13. govermint - January 17, 2011 3:33 PM
Looks sick, except for the seats, those just look stupid.
14. Two-thirty - January 17, 2011 4:02 PM
West Coast Customs was the shop from Pimp My Ride, so yeah, "Yo dawg, I heard you liked..."
15. Tennist0 - January 17, 2011 4:04 PM
I dunno GW, I would drive that...
16. Tennist0 - January 17, 2011 4:05 PM
*looks at more pictures* *sees eye rapping chrome* NVMD, someone needs deathing.
17. Lord of the horse beaters - January 17, 2011 4:07 PM
Now that's a movie themed ride right there... who owns this thing, I may have to go "Buy" it off them.
18. JJtoob - January 17, 2011 4:41 PM
What #5 said.
19. Edge - January 17, 2011 6:06 PM
would've looked better in a gloss black.
still want though.
20. LUL - January 17, 2011 6:33 PM
Chrome to men is like diamonds to women. MORE BLUE.
21. Radom user #2341236 - January 17, 2011 7:02 PM
Screw it, i'd totally do this if I had money and if it were street legal.
22. STDs - January 17, 2011 7:49 PM
Why do douchebags always waste their money on shit like this?
23. Blake Monea - January 17, 2011 8:42 PM
Hahahah, that's badass. But Ryan Friedlinghaus is a douchebag, a conman, & a pretty good rip-off artist.
Oh, he also didn't start his shop with nothing but his hands & a 5k loan from his grandpa, he's just full of shit.
24. miltrucker - January 17, 2011 8:43 PM
I gotta say, it turned out pretty well. Not 100% sure about the color though....
25. Blake Monea - January 17, 2011 8:46 PM
Oh, & let's not forget he secretly works with the FBI. OH YEAH, or the sexual harassment lawsuit he payed OUT THE ASS to keep from the press. Ms. Vermillion.
26. Ed - January 17, 2011 11:06 PM
That guy with the TRON Segway feels seriously imasculated right about now.
@16 "Eye raping" is the perfect adj for this lol. Be a shame to spend all that and you can't drive it on the street. Black white or silver would've been so much better.
27. The Dude - January 18, 2011 1:45 AM
The only thing "Tron" themed about this car is the shade of blue they used. I mean seriously, if you showed this car without the caption, I doubt a single person would associate it with Tron. Literally all they did was chrome every inch of surface and and some lights in the grill, tires and seats. At least Segway Tron got it right - gloss black with luminescent lines.
28. gagomator - January 18, 2011 4:49 AM
Not TRON enough. The Dude is right, there is not enough glowing lines.
29. President Wishnack - January 18, 2011 5:41 AM
i would just like to add that the new owner of the tron-car is this man right here: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/09/noel_lee.jpg
and there is no way he can drive that car. my friend works for monster cables and can vouch that mr. lee's legs are mostly useless. in fact, he's explained that he rides a segway because "wheelchairs are for poor people."
30. lol - January 18, 2011 6:04 AM
the car is amazing and im pretty sure no one here could even buy one so who cares about the color or anythig like it matters stfu rtards just say its an awesome car cos thats what it is
31. McFeely Smackup - January 18, 2011 5:08 PM
Apparently the cholos in my neighborhood have been driving Tron cars for the last 10 years. Light effects is hardly something new.
I wonder if it occurred to the West Coast Customs guys to go see the Tron movie, when they were asked to make the theme car. Or did someone just say "I dunno, I think it's supposed to glow or something".
32. NVG - January 19, 2011 2:10 AM
They done it wrong.
The chrome ruined it all.
West Coast Customs should hire real designers who know what they're doing.
33. PurpleJedi - January 20, 2011 1:23 PM
Disgustingly overdone. A show of excess in times of need. I can't believe it's even street-legal.
...and how can I own that baby...?
34. Oh the humanity! - January 23, 2011 1:56 PM
What have they done?!
35. Orphan Snatcher - January 23, 2011 8:21 PM
I've already seen a Tron baby stroller, LED lightling like this design aren't new.